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Five Questions for Vetting an Investment in a New or Emerging VC Fund

This is going to be BIG.

A lot of VC fund pitches—and I know this because I used to vet VCs for a living as an institutional limited partner at a pension fund—sound the same. They’re trying to get exposure and diversification at the same time, while potentially seeing co-investment deal flow.

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Transcript: David Layton

The Big Picture

Look, our parents all had pension funds. LAYTON: — sources of funds for our industry is going to change as a result of that. It’s been primarily pension, historically. The assumption is, hey, these are big, sophisticated investors, making big investments into companies.

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